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Maintaining our roads
Maintaining our roads
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Highway maintenance scheme
We are responsible for maintaining 1,250km (780 miles) of roads and pavements of adopted highway.
Street works
Information about working on the highway and any permits you may need.
Abandoned vehicles
How to report an abandoned vehicle to us.
Extreme weather
The contingencies and emergency routines for extreme weather in the area, and how it affects our roads.
Road markings
Information about road markings and street signage.
Street naming
We are the street naming and numbering authority for the area.
Street projections
How to apply for a licence for structures, advertisements and hangings over a street, footway or road.
Highway adoptions
Highway adoption is a term used when we take over the maintenance of a private street.
Highways asset management
The highways asset management policy and strategy sets out the vision, scope and context of highway asset management and details the long term approach for the management of highway assets and allows planning for the future.
Postal numbers, property names and street names
A new development should always have a house number and street name